Latias Counter I believeNo idea why Umbreon is being used more often, set up bait for Lucario and Scizor, both of which are in the top ten.
Latias Counter I believeNo idea why Umbreon is being used more often, set up bait for Lucario and Scizor, both of which are in the top ten.
Porygon2 counters DDMence, DDGyara, Heatran (particularly Choice-locked Tran), SpecsJolteon, and Vaporeon (especially if it lacks Toxic). It's also just a tank in general, with access to Bolt/Beam, Recover, and your choice of T-Wave support, Toxic support, or a Hidden Power. T-Wave support (and the ability to counter all of that) allow Pory2 to contribute to setting up SD Lucario or Heracross, or any Curse sweeper, or slower sweepers in general.Porygon2 is such a deadweight Pokemon. All it does is counter 3 pokemon, and only 1 of those reliably at that. It can't support a team either. there's so many better things you could put in a teamslot than porygon2.
The number of pokemon shown in the teammate stats varies by ladder. I came up with the various teammate numbers, limits, and lists in an attempt to make the teammate stats somewhat interesting. When I first compiled teammate stats simply by rank, it gave me a lot of data, but didn't really "tell me anything".Is it possible to display the top 50 teammates for each Pokemon instead of the top 20 and remove the teammates related to rank? Let's face it, teammates related to rank is not very interesting.
Also I'd prefer to have teammates information for more than the top 50 Pokemon if it's possible... maybe top 100. I would like the info for the other ladders' teammates to be increased proportionally as well.
The reason for this is that I wrote a program that attempts to reconstruct the teams that were used, given the usage information and teammates information (that's why I wasn't very active lately, by the way). The program works, but since the teammates information is limited, the teams produced are, to say the least, not what you would expect.
Well, it depends on how you play and against what team you are playing. Against stall, Porygon2 is utter crap. Against offensive teams, his use depends on your playstyle. If you like prediction, you are definitely going to get better results with a revenge killer. If not, it might be a useful hinge to use on your team.Porygon2 is such a deadweight Pokemon. All it does is counter 3 pokemon, and only 1 of those reliably at that. It can't support a team either. there's so many better things you could put in a teamslot than porygon2.
Some evs lets you outrun Scarf Trace Gardevoir...i know,no one uses it,but if a Scarf Gardevoir Tricks the item on Ninjask while outspeeding everything,that's not gonna be fun gonna be fun... I've swept 6-0 two times with only Gardy because of that(since no BP team uses Blissey or any special wall)You mean aside from enemy Ninjasks? Yes, it does happen, Ninjask vs Ninjask.
You do realize Dugtrio has Sucker Punch, however unreliable, correct?Dugtrio: As stall falls, so will the use of Duggy. It's low defences make it fall too easy, especially to Priority, and lack of it's own makes it dead meat for DDGara, Jolt, and DDMance, ect. Blissey's use has fallen, and that was the natural Prey of Duggy, so Duggy suffers.
Why when you can use Blissey/Tyranitar? She gets Seismic Toss, Thunder Wave, fire moves, Stealth Rock, and a 1-turn recovery move which isn't screwed by weather. Both are screwed by Trick, but I'd rather be tossing around Thunder Waves than Toxics / Paybacks anyday. If you want something more offensive or for CMers, use Tyranitar. Careful TTar with CB easily handles CM Latias, and has power to abuse dark STAB, unlike Umbreon. With better ways of handling Latias such as Tyranitar, Scarf Heracross/Flygon/Salamence, Blissey, Scizor, etc I can't see why anyone would waste a slot on their team for a pokemon to counter a single other pokemon, while bringing no support otherwise(besides the occasional Mean Look + BP, or Yawn, have fun pulling off the former with all the steels around). Shit, if you wanna be "original" you can even use something like Registeel, who can set up rocks, Thunder Wave, etc. There is no room for Umbreon in this metagame, but if fools want to keep using him I can't argue anymore.Latias Counter I believe
Yes, I do realise the existance of Sucker Punch, however, Sucker Punch, as you admitted, is unreliable, and at base 60 Power, it isn't going to put much of a dent in the likes of Scizor who will OHKO with Bullet Punch, Metagross, who could BP Dugtrio for massive damage, ect. Sucker Punch may have priority, but it isn't reliable, or useful, for Dugtrio's role as a revenge killer/trapper, except for killing the likes of Dusknoir, and Psychics such as Alakazam. (Gengar would be the main thing for SP, and it has levitate, so can switch out)You do realize Dugtrio has Sucker Punch, however unreliable, correct?
Sucker Punch actually has 80 base power.Yes, I do realise the existance of Sucker Punch, however, Sucker Punch, as you admitted, is unreliable, and at base 60 Power, it isn't going to put much of a dent in the likes of Scizor who will OHKO with Bullet Punch, Metagross, who could BP Dugtrio for massive damage, ect. Sucker Punch may have priority, but it isn't reliable, or useful, for Dugtrio's role as a revenge killer/trapper, except for killing the likes of Dusknoir, and Psychics such as Alakazam. (Gengar would be the main thing for SP, and it has levitate, so can switch out)
Plus the fact that no one really wants to base a team around him anymore, and actually have 2-3 Pokemon to make it work.Heracross has been in decline since before plat.
The changes to the metagame that DP brought have slowly but surely made him not as viable as he was in advance.
I don't think it would be that bad. Nidoqueen also stops it with only strange Earthquake hitting super-effective. Dusclops would be ok as a check only fearing CB Nigh Slash. Also Max HP/Max Def Gligar can't be 2OHKOed by CB Stone Edge. And lack of priority and average speed means that Heracross is quite easy to revenge kill. I think it would be force that you need to respect, but nothing, that completely overpoweres metagame. And unlike for example Staraptor it can't avoid his counter with U-Turn. But yeah, I guess Heracross is less popular, because it lacks priority like Lucario. Heracross would love to have Dragon Dance ;).If Heracross drops down to UU I see every team carrying a Weezing.